DIVAN

PEARL GLUCK, A FILMMAKER WHO HAILS FROM A BROOKLYN ORTHODOX CLAN (BUT IS HERSELF A SECULAR MANHATTANITE), travels back to her Hungarian roots to retrieve a beloved family heirloom, a couch that has been slept upon by successive generations of hot-shot rabbis. A witty and playful journey, “that traces a woman’s quest for identity through her stubborn fixation on an object, in her case a couch. Both deeply committed and slyly ironic, DIVAN offers . . . a glimpse into the richness of Yiddish folklore, a passive-aggressive assault on the patriarchal fastness of Hasidic orthodoxy and a vast self-reflexive joke.” — Ronnie Scheib, Variety.

WITH SUPPORT FROM THE JOAN S. CONSTANTINER FUND FOR JEWISH AND HOLOCAUST FILMS

DIVAN Soundtrack CD

• Filmaker’s website
• View the trailer
• Zeitgeist website
• Bari Pearlman talks with director Pearl Gluck about Divan in Filmmaker Magazine
• Read Michael Bronski’s review in The Forward (registration required)
• Hungarian Embassy in Washington D.C.
  Permanent Mission of Hungary to the U.N.
• 92nd Street Y
• The Center for Jewish History
• JCCs of North America
• The Jewish Museum New York
• The Jewish Women Website
• The Jewish Women’s Archive Site
• Jewish Womens’ Issues Links
• Judaism and Jewish Resources
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• New York Board of Rabbis
• Nice Jewish Girl’s Jewish Feminist Resources

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